Tag: Golden Paints
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Colorful Fridays–“Green” Rose Brown
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” Sir Frances Bacon (from the Painter’s Keys) Mix cinnamon, ginger and chocolate and you will come up with a color very close to Burnt Sienna, (not to be confused with the rock band, Burnt Sienna). However, you may not want to…
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Colorful Fridays-The Queen’s Red
“I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.”–Alexander Calder (from Color Research) Did Lewis Carroll base the character, the Red Queen, of Through Looking Glass, on the War of the Roses or on Queen Victoria? There is much speculation but the monarch was apparently an amateur painter with a preference for…
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Colorful Fridays–Shady Green
“Like emotions, colours are a reflection of life.” – Janice Glennaway (from Irene Osborne) Most greens fall into the yellow spectrum following the colors of leaves, grass and other growing things of the natural world. These greens usually produce a nice mud color if mixed with red. The discovery of Viridian green changed that, creating…
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Colorful Fridays–Sunset Yellow
“It has the quality of appearing to recede into the picture’s distant plain (sic) (un)like other yellows that sit in front of the plain(sic).”– Pigments Through The Ages All of the Naples colors are favorites of mine but especially Naples Yellow. I just love it. It squishes so nicely. Naples Yellow mixes well with just…